Rewinding to Thursday 1 April 1976…
Thursday · Paramaribo, Suriname
The world on 1 April 1976 in Paramaribo.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
Looking up the weather in Paramaribo…
02The sky that night
A waxing crescent watched over you.
5% lit · 2 days into its cycle
Looking up from Paramaribo that evening, you could have spotted Mars, Saturn, Uranus without a telescope.
It was spring in your half of the world.
The Moon was 405,602 km away — farther than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)”
by The 4 Seasons — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks, taking over from “Love Machine (Part 1)”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
PRICES IN THE U.S. · 1976-04-01
BREAD COSTS 5.9× WHAT IT DID
US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation
05Your life in numbers
Since that day, you have lived…
0
seconds
and counting, right now
0
heartbeats
at a resting average of 80 a minute
0
breaths
give or take a few yawns
0
sunrises
2,640 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
km travelled
50 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Thursday's child, under Aries.
Star sign
Aries
Fire sign
Chinese zodiac
Dragon
Fire Dragon
Birthstone
Diamond
for your month
Birth flower
Daisy
for your month
Generation
Generation X
1965–1980
Day of the week
Thursday
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